another wasted premise

Rating: 4/10 (6 August 2006)

take a great premise, add some very good actors and throw in liberal doses of Hollywood dreck and you have the makings of quite a disappointing movie. the story and the production are actually quite good but it's lost in a morass of explosions and too-quick to see or care what's happening scenes. and the fall off the side of a skyscraper is just completely ludicrous. checking your reality at the door is one thing, having to turn off your brain completely is something altogether different.
if only Bay could have figured out a way to add a couple more chase sequences to this movie, then maybe he'd have something.
i love a good sci-fi flick - even when poorly executed many times - but anyone that rates this one highly is just crazy.